The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.

Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality. With more involvement and regularity, I learned to push each study in a certain direction. Little by little the notion that painting is a means of expression asserted itself, and that one can express the same thing in several ways. Exactitude is not truth, Delacroix liked to say.

...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.

I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.

The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.